General MS Access Programming

[Starwood]

I have spent almost 46 years learning, using and teaching different
programming languages and quite frankly, I have never found anything more
confusing than trying to program functions in MS Access. I have given up
trying to learn how by studying other people's coding examples.

What is available to help learn the subject in the form of self-study
courses?

Thanks,

George

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

I'm puzzled by this, given that Access uses the same VBA as the rest of the
Office products, and that it's virtually indistinguishable from "Classic"
VB.

Jeff Conrad has a fabulous list of Access-related resources at
http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/accessjunkie/resources.html

 

[Steve]

For the nuts and bolts ---
Using Microsoft Access XXX, Roger Jennings, Que Corp

For VBA ---
Beginning Access XXX VBA, Smith and Sussman, Wrox Press

Where XXX is the version of Access you use.

PC Datasheet
Providing Customers A Resource For Help With Access, Excel And Word
Applications
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[Albert D. Kallal]

I have spent almost 46 years learning, using and teaching different
programming languages and quite frankly, I have never found anything more
confusing than trying to program functions in MS Access. I have given up
trying to learn how by studying other people's coding examples.

Perhaps you should mention some of the languages? I used everything,
assembler, FORTRAN, Pascal

VB, FoxPro, IBM's U2 (uni-verse) basic.

I have not found anything significant different the above systems. The "big"
conceptual shift from those original pc computer languages like turbo-pascal
etc is we now have a event driven model. (that was all the big news when vb
came out more then 10+ years ago).

The syntax of coding in ms-access is identical to that of vb6, and vb5.
(and, those two languages are arguably the most popular computer languages
in computing histroy.).

The coding approahes are simular to just about every platofmrn I used...

The only real differnce between vb6 and ms-access is that you have diffent
forms and applicaton object model...but, the coding is realtive straight
foward and the same in both cases..

You been given a few references, and do feel free to ask, or expand on some
of the questions you have....

You don't mention what version, but if you hit ctrl-g to jump to the code
editor, then help does have a nice index of programming topics...

 

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For the nuts and bolts ---
Using Microsoft Access XXX, Roger Jennings, Que Corp

For VBA ---
Beginning Access XXX VBA, Smith and Sussman, Wrox Press

Where XXX is the version of Access you use.

PC Datasheet
Providing Customers A Resource For Help With Access, Excel And Word
Applications
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